Like you can from the website.

Yes, I know, I even mentioned that, but it would be much more convenient to have it in the uploader. Since I add more observations consecutively lately, I chose to rather not click on every observation separately to add these annotations because it would take me hours (also 'cause it loads very slow…

Looks like Tony was replying to the topic poster, not to your comment.

Ups, I haven’t realized :D But still I would vote for these sections to appear not only in the app but right in the app uploader (if that would be technically possible).

Me too! I don’t use tags, but annotations in the mobile uploader would definitely be appreciated :)

To me this is always the push and pull of the mobile apps: trying keeping it simple and not overwhelming for new and casual users (who are the ones more likely to be using the app) yet including some of the more esoteric features. I think the current set-up is a good compromise, but I’m not someone …

Hmm, maybe as a better compromise you could have annotation and tag sections partially hidden in the uploader, e.g. tap on them and the section expands, or use drop-down menus, or both.

FWIW, we’ve had the ability to add annotations in the Android app since October 2018. Tags… I’m less convinced we really need them… at all, let alone in the mobile apps. I think the only time I find them useful is when I’m trying to search for something non-taxonomic and non-geographic, e.g. my gall…

Tags are a make or break feature for doing a bioblitz. I have a group of friends, we would like to associate all of our observations for a specific event or theme. Adding tags is the best way to do this – it is then easy to search on the iNat webpage for that tag and see all of our “themed” identi…

To clarify: for an existing BioBlitz with an existing Project page, adding mobile observations to a project works great. But for more informal settings, adding tagged observations is important. For example, when the native plant society has a plant walk, it is nice when we can all tag our observa…

I so much agree with @conorflynn Tagging is so useful for classifying observations related to whatever-you-want, and avoids the need of creating a project. Actually, this is something useful for iNaturalist as it would avoid proliferation of unneeded projects .

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tiwane August 22, 2022, 6:41pm 26

No, we’ve just been focusing on building the new mobile app.

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